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Anthropic’s Claude helped a user recover 5 Bitcoin worth $395,000 by locating an old wallet backup file on their computer.

Claude Found The File, Not The Password

The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.

Total GPU spend on the failed brute-force attempts was around $15.

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The recovery happened when the user “dumped my whole college computer into Claude” as a last-ditch effort.

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